I cant see or hear video - got my emil off to that guy who will be taking emails??? here it is and his generic reply I got back

Dear Dr Morgan

That is great that you will be answering emails now

We need funding for people that can find these retroviruses---forget about funding for the other stuff right now -- these retroviruses have to be top priority for us now. What are you going to do about this?

Thank you for the email. I am out of the office until Friday, October 15, and will not be able to respond to you immediately. For urgent matters please call 301 402-1770.All the best, Dennis Mangan, ORWH, OD, NIH

Maybe this should be under Science Day (Day 1 post) but I was thinking about Houghton's summing up of Science Day and his negative views on XMRV and Dr. Glaser's pounding on EBV during the talks. Although we don't like to think about it, conflicts of interest do permeate people's opinions conciously or not.

For Glaser's comments, it's pretty obvious since his work is on EBV and indeed, EBV needs to be looked at for ME/CFS.

For Houghton, I remember now that he is one of the executives (or higher-ups anyway) for Epiphany Biosciences which has medicines in development for herpes viruses. This might inform why he might not be as interested in XMRV for non-scientific reasons; this is not to say that his interests might be entirely scientific but something for people to consider. Also, he commented during that time that perhaps mono be treated early to prevent CFS (which I thought was an odd to just pop in during the summary) ; while this is a good topic to consider, I also remembered that Epiphany is one of the groups running a trial of treating acute mono with their new drug.

The signs were so great yesterday, have to keep them. We love them. I was thinking it is such a great protest, no interruption at all, how can they complain, and now they blame for video problem. No one was moving at all everyone was listening so hard to the speaker, and it was exactly 5:00 so the video people probably had times wrong.
So it sounds like they didn't discuss xmrv or make corrections in am science section? It took me an hour to get sound.

One of the comments I heard from the committee was that someone said Seattle would be interested in a ME/CFS hub. Does anyone know which member of the committee said that. I'm in Seattle and would really like to know who would be interested in a hub in our area.

One of the comments I heard from the committee was that someone said Seattle would be interested in a ME/CFS hub. Does anyone know which member of the committee said that. I'm in Seattle and would really like to know who would be interested in a hub in our area.

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Steve Krafchik, a lawyer, said that because the University of Washington Harborview Medical Center used to have one of the centers for CFS back in the early 2000s headed by Dedra Buchwald. The problem is that I've heard the waiting list is long, the clinic isn't helpful, and Buchwald's work over time has shifted more to "chronic fatigue." But you can ask other people for their opinion as well.